1568
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| Years: | 1565 1566 1567 - 1568 - 1569 1570 1571 |
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Year 1568 was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.
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[edit] Events of 1568
- March 23 - The Peace of Longjumeau ends the Second War of Religion in France. Again Catherine de' Medici and Charles IX make substantial concessions to the Huguenots.
- May 2 - Mary Queen of Scots escapes from Loch Leven Castle.
- May 13 - Battle of Langside: The forces of Mary Queen of Scots are defeated by a confederacy of Scottish Protestants under James Stewart, Earl of Moray, her half-brother.
- May 16 - Mary Queen of Scots flees to England.
- May 19 - Queen Elizabeth I of England arrests Mary Queen of Scots.
- May 23 - Battle of Heiligerlee: Troops under Louis of Nassau, brother of William I of Orange, defeat a smaller loyalist force under the Duke of Arenberg in an attempt to invade the Northern Netherlands.
- July 21 - Battle of Jemmingen: The main Spanish army of the Duke of Alva utterly defeats Louis of Nassau's invading army in the Northeastern Netherlands.
- August 18 - The Third War of Religion begins in France after an unsuccessful attempt by the Royalists to capture Condé and Coligny, the Huguenot leaders.
- September 29 - The Swedish king Eric XIV is dethroned and succeeded by his half-brother John III.
- October 5 - William of Orange invades the Southeastern Netherlands.
- October 20 - Battle of Jodoigne. Spanish forces under the Duke of Alva destroy Orange's rearguard. Orange abandons his offensive.
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- The Russo-Ottoman War in Astrakhan begins.
- The Azuchi-Momoyama period begins in Japan.
- The Eighty Years' War begins.
- Peace of Adrianople: The Ottomans agree to pay tribute to the Habsburgs.
- Akbar the Great of the Mughal Empire besieges and captures the massive Chittorgarh Fort in northern India.
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1568 MDLXVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2321 |
| Armenian calendar | 1017 ԹՎ ՌԺԷ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -276 – -275 |
| Berber calendar | 2518 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2112 |
| Burmese calendar | 930 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7076 – 7077 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁卯年十二月初三日 (4204/4264-12-3) — to —
戊辰年十二月十四日(4205/4265-12-14) |
| Coptic calendar | 1284 – 1285 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1560 – 1561 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5328 – 5329 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1623 – 1624 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1490 – 1491 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4669 – 4670 |
| Holocene calendar | 11568 |
| Iranian calendar | 946 – 947 |
| Islamic calendar | 975 – 976 |
| Japanese calendar | Eiroku 11 (永禄11年) |
| Korean calendar | 3901 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2111 |
- February 11 - Honoré d'Urfé, French writer (d. 1625)
- March 9 - Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian Jesuit and saint (d. 1591)
- April - Pope Urban VIII (d. 1644)
- September 3 - Adriano Banchieri, Italian composer (d. 1634)
- September 5 - Tommaso Campanella, Italian theologian and poet (d. 1639)
- October 2 - Marin Getaldić, Croatian scientist (d. 1626)
- date unknown
- Nikolaus Ager, French botanist (d. 1634)
- John Welsh of Ayr, Scottish Presbyterian leader
- Barnabe Barnes, English poet (d. 1609)
- Teodosio II, Duke of Braganza (d. 1630)
- Edward Chichester, 1st Viscount Chichester (d. 1648)
- Nakagawa Hidemasa, Japanese military leader (d. 1592)
- Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxochitl, Mexican historian (d. 1648)
- Gervase Markham, English poet and writer (d. 1637)
- Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester (d. 1628)
- Henry Wotton, English author and diplomat (d. 1639)
- Wei Zhongxian, Grand Secretary of China (d. 1627)
[edit] Deaths
- January 15 - Catherine Carey, Chief Lady of the Bedchamber to Elizabeth I of England (b. c. 1526)
- January 20 - Myles Coverdale, English Bible translator (b. c. 1488)
- January 21 - Amato Lusitano, Portuguese physician (b. 1511)
- January 26 - Lady Catherine Grey, Countess of Hertford (b. 1539)
- February 15 - Henry, Count of Bréderode, Dutch reformer (b. 1531)
- March 20 - Duke Albert of Prussia (b. 1490)
- May 23 - Jean de Ligne, Duke of Aremberg (b. 1528)
- June 3 - Andrés de Urdaneta, Spanish Friar (b. 1498)
- June 5
- Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish statesman (b. 1522)
- Philip de Montmorency, Count of Hoorn (b. c. 1524
- July 7 - William Turner, British ornithologist and botanist (b. 1508)
- July 24 - Don Carlos of Spain, son of Philip II of Spain (b. 1545)
- August 23 - Thomas Wharton, 1st Baron Wharton (b. 1495)
- September 22 - Jöran Persson, Swedish politician (b. c. 1530) (executed)
- October 3 - Elizabeth of Valois, Queen of Philip II of Spain (b. 1545)
- October 14 - Jacques Arcadelt, Flemish composer (b. 1504)
- October 28 - Ashikaga Yoshihide, Japanese shogun (b. 1538)
- November 6 - Metropolitan German, archbishop of Kazan and later Metropolitan of Moscow
- December 23 - Roger Ascham, tutor of Elizabeth I of England (b. 1515)
- December 31 - Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (b. 1493)
- date unknown
- Henry Sutton Dudley, English soldier and sailor (b. 1517)
- Garcia de Orta, Portuguese Jewish physician (b. 1501)
- Dirk Philips, early Anabaptist writer and theologian
- Yan Song, Chinese prime minister (b. 1481)
